It happened: 29 questions of new ethics and morality

In the modern world, it is impossible to once decide for yourself what is good and what is evil and to live with these ideas all your life. Everything around us is constantly changing - new computer technologies and scientific discoveries cause ethical issues that we have to solve again and again, and the values ​​that once recognized by all are criticized and called into question.
To develop our position, to understand, to understand, to understand What is behind a stranger, and not to hate each other, Andrei Babitsky and Ekaterina Kronhaus have been discussing the news and ethical issues that they pose before us every week. Of the 29 such conversations, this book has developed.

Here are just some of these questions:

a person - is he bad or good?
Can an artist be a bastard? < Br /> Is it worth giving a person a second chance?
Do we need prisons? And the death penalty?
Why do you need parents?
Is it worth it to break life for great achievements?
Why do we sympathize with the robots?
Do drug addicts have the right to respect? What do we agree for the sake of work?
What is the consent of sex?

Features:
• Talk about ethical problems in the world, in which the content of moral issues and the public itself are rapidly changing Morality.
• An attempt to understand in which world we now live and how to agree in it.
• The book was created on the basis of the podcasts “The case” and “It turned out”.

Quotes:
“If new technologies gradually and imperceptibly penetrate our lives and we do not always understand how we lived without them 10 or 15 years ago, then the changes that occur with the norm are often so painful that they do not notice them impossible. Around them, scandals and endless disputes flare up, sometimes insoluble - so that they end, everyone will have to accept new, in most cases unwritten, rules of the game. It is we who are trying to calculate. ”

“ An amazing property of a person is at the same time afraid of the new and wish him with all his might - the most clearly reflected in the popularity of anti -utopias. But behind the picture of a fantastic future, we do not always notice that the problems that appear simultaneously with new technologies are not at all new. Why this happens - due to the lack of imagination of the creators of anti -utopias or because there are actually not so many ethical dilemmas, we do not know. But be that as it may, new questions or old ones, we discuss them and look for answers to them. ”

About the authors:

Andrey Babitsky - a biologist, scientific journalist, Peducster, worked as the editor -in -chief of Inliberty and Postnuka sites. Since 2018, together with Ekaterina Krongauz, the ethical podcast “case” (Meduza.io) has been conducting - “So it turned out” (“either /or”.

Ekaterina Krongauz - journalist, podcaster, author of books “ Am I a bad mother? And 33 other questions that spoil the life of parents ”and a series of children"s detectives about investigator Karasik. For two years she led podcast on Meduza.io “case” about the old and new ethical issues that each of us faces daily. In 2019, she became a co -founder of the studio of the podcasts “either/or”, where the ethical podcast began to go out under the new name - “this happened”